Those of you with a modicum of programming know-how can easily build more advanced functionality. We'll use a little PHP to pull all of our site into only one page with links between our Home, Python, Perl, and PHP views. And we'll add bit of HTML to spice things up.

Give phperlthon.php a whirl. The links pass appropriate arguments back to the PHP page itself, which in turn passes the appropriate switches on to Meerkat on the URL-line. This sort of tomfoolery could just as easily have been accomplished with Server-Side Includes (SSI), CGI scripting, and the like. Hopefully this simple demo provides you with programmatic inspiration on new ways to use Meerkat in your coding.

I hope this article inspires you to use Meerkat in interesting and novel ways. Be sure to drop us a line in the O'Reilly Network RSS Forum and let us know. And, if you're so inclined, spread the Meerkat word with a nifty "Meerkat Powered!" button. To do so, simply copy-and-paste the following HTML into your document:

Rael Dornfest
is Founder and CEO of Portland, Oregon-based Values of n. Rael leads the Values of n charge with passion, unearthly creativity, and a repertoire of puns and jokes  some of which are actually good.
Prior to founding Values of n, he was O'Reilly's Chief Technical Officer, program chair for the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (which he continues to chair), series editor of the bestselling Hacks book series, and instigator of O'Reilly's Rough Cuts early access program. He built Meerkat, the first web-based feed aggregator, was champion and co-author of the RSS 1.0 specification, and has written and contributed to six O'Reilly books.
Rael's programmatic pride and joy is the nimble, open source blogging application Blosxom, the principles of which you'll find in the Values of n philosophy and embodied in Stikkit: Little yellow notes that think.